I'm tired. If there was one thing in the world that Natasha could empathize with, it was exhaustion, and to be perfectly fair, Tony had been doing this a hell of a lot longer than she had. And it wasn't as though there was a way to really quantify the shit that Victors went through once they came out of the arena. Everybody had pain. Everyone lived with it; that was the price you paid for your life, the weight you dragged around with you and were never really allowed to surrender. If there was no way to quantify it, though, there was a way to know how long it had gone on for, and Tony had been dragging his around for longer than anyone else Natasha knew. Of course he was tired.
Not to mention the hardware he was carrying in his chest, or the secrecy surrounding what, exactly, it was that got delivered to him in that needle. She had never asked for details because it was never her business, but she knew it was happening. The same way she knew most things were happening, even if all this revolution business had blindsided her. With all of those things added together, it shouldn't have come as much of a shock, she supposed, that if somebody like Tony felt like he was on the verge of - however he'd phrased it, put me to sleep - if he felt like he was going out, he'd decide that he was going out swinging.
There was something about the way he dropped her wrist that felt like a slap in the face, even if that wasn't the intention. Something about it that said her anger, her opinions, her actions - that they were all worthless. That they counted for nothing. There was no reason for it to feel like some cord had been cut, some thread had been snapped, not when there were meant to be no threads here in the first place.
"Fine," she said, and she hated it that her voice was shaking. "Fine. It's happening. And when this blows up in your faces, don't come crying to me about it." She tucked the towel in more tightly, firmly against herself, used both hands to smooth her still-wet hair back, out of her eyes. "I'm sure you can find your way to the train station on your own."